Similarly people use the word "science" even if there isn't actually any evidence or "science" behind whatever they're arguing for. Their just using it as their argument's firewall. Unfortunately it's basically a trick you can't get around as us humans don't have the intellectual capacity to know "all science facts" to take down the argument.
So true. There's numerous studies that show we're programmed to just trust those in uniforms, especially lab coats. And given how often science turns out to be wrong, or that we can rarely even reproduce studies and results, you'd think we'd welcome more challenges to what's reported by way of science.
